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Old 10-12-14 | 04:18 PM
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Power generated is basically proportional to the cosine of the angle between the array's normal and the incoming radiation. If the array is pointing 45 degrees away from the Sun, its power output will be 70% of that when pointing directly at it. At 20 deg off it's 94%. etc
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